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The Science of Karma
where karmas are bound is actually called freedom, because
here there is a choice. The other three levels are all ‘jails’
because there is no choice.
Questioner: Is it only in the human life form that karmas
are bound, including the good ones?
Dadashri: Both good and bad karmas are bound here.
The humans bind karma. If they cause harm or misery to
people, they go to the animal form or a life in hell. If their karmas
give happiness to others then they return to the human life or go
to the celestial level. So the life level depends on the type of
karma bound. Once the level is decided, one has to go through
that level, experience the effects and return to the human form.
Only humans have the right to bind karma, no one else.
Those who have this right must wander through all the four life
forms. If they do not do karmas at all, not an iota of cause-
karma, they are liberated from this cycle. One can attain liberation
only in the